How To Install tex-gyre on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tex-gyre on Debian 9.
What is tex-gyre
tex-gyre is:
The TeX Gyre project, following the Latin Modern project, aims at providing a rich collection of diacritical characters in the attempt to cover as many Latin-based scripts as possible.
This package provides TeX support and Type1 (PostScript) fonts. If only the OpenType fonts are needed, please see the package fonts-texgyre.
See the description for fonts-texgyre package for more information.
There are three methods to install tex-gyre on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tex-gyre Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tex-gyre using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tex-gyre
Install tex-gyre Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tex-gyre using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tex-gyre
Install tex-gyre Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tex-gyre using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tex-gyre
How To Uninstall tex-gyre on Debian 9
To uninstall only the tex-gyre package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tex-gyre
Uninstall tex-gyre And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tex-gyre and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tex-gyre
Remove tex-gyre Configurations and Data
To remove tex-gyre configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tex-gyre
Remove tex-gyre configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tex-gyre configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tex-gyre
Dependencies
tex-gyre have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tex-gyre package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.